Saturday, May 31, 2014

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Peter G has come up with another drama featuring a Nagari. This time in Matlock Police in 1973.

It's B8/93 which at the time was retained by Bolwell as a demo car before being sold to Campbell's cousin, Peter Thiry in Wentworth, NSW. Peter retained the car until 1979 when it turned up in Adelaide, going through a number of owners before eventually being bought by Sue Lewis in Sydney. It was or is metallic blue.

Have heard from Howard Crawford. LKO-893 was built by Howard's father, Eric. He later got the number plates BN-880 (it is chassis B8/80, now owned by Guy Smith). Howard would love to get hold of a copy of the episode to show his dad. That can be arranged I'm sure. He has sent a copy of a letter from Crawford Productions (no relation) regarding the episode.

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Chris Keating (Dr. Keats on 88.6 Plenty Valley FM and 96.5 Inner FM) has been an Australian TV enthusiast for many years and in that time, naturally, has come across some Aussie dramas which featured Nagaris.
Specifically : episode 432 of "Homicide" features the red Nagari sports LKP-666. Episode 205 of "Division 4" features the white coupe LHO-889 and episode 234 features the blue coupe LKO-873.

Obviously Chris has the episodes in question and would be happy to make copies available (possibly without timecodes) to the respective owners, if they'd like. Let me know and I'll pass details on.

Monday, May 19, 2014

Finally MSCA SA have posted the results of the Mallala 6 hour. Bolwell Team came 13th out of the 25 teams entered, a vast improvement on our first effort last year and a promise of things to come in the future. Here are a few pictures of the day.

Not in our team but part of our group was this lovely Cortina and no, it's not John Harwood over for the weekend.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Something of a highlight of the McLaren Vale Classic Car extravaganza, while driving along McLaren Vale's main street before turning into Kangarilla Road to find our designated winery, was to encounter a light silver Noble coming the other way. That was the first time I had seen one, probably not surprising as I'm sure there aren't too many in this country.
Anyway, here's what it looked like.

And here is a bit of a description from Sports Car Digest.
British entrepreneur, automobile designer and engineer Lee Noble’s
recipe for the ideal sports car started with three simple ingredients
that proved massively effective. The first one was clearly the most
important, and that was the lightweight skeleton. Next was the power
plant, which would generally be a high-powered mill; something capable
of powering a small town, preferably. Last but not least was to clothe
the featherweight space frame in attractive but highly functional
bodywork. Already credited with such epic designs as the Ascari Ecosse
and the Ultima Mk1, 2 and 3 (which the TAG-McLaren group famously used
as test mules for their mighty F1 road car), Mr. Noble’s recipe would be
one that is remarkably simple, but shouldn’t be taken lightly.